'It was like the people from Fyre Festival decided to throw a pizza party':Outrage as Brooklyn Pizza Festival charges foodies $75 a ticket but then serves them 'smaller than sample size' portions in a 'shady' parking lot

Pizza lovers paid up to $75 for a 'day long celebration of the dough, cheese, tasty sauces and delicious toppings' in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood

Instead, patrons were given 'pizza...smaller than a sample size,' and that was also 'cold and tasted awful' according to comments on Facebook

Festival organizers said deliveries were delayed and attempted to blame Hangry Garden, an event furniture provider

But Hangry Garden said that they too were misled and were not paid up until the day of the event even

All the negative feedback got the attention of Attorney General Eric Schneirderman's office, which has opened an investigation into the event

New York's Attorney General has launched an investigation into a $75-a-head pizza festival after visitors complained the whole thing was a scam.

Foodies slammed the The New York City Pizza Festival in Bushwick on Saturday, and posted pictures of the 'awful' food they were given on social media.

The event was advertised as a 'day long celebration of the dough, cheese, tasty sauces and delicious toppings.'

Instead, patrons were given 'pizza...smaller than a sample size,' that was also 'cold and tasted awful', according to comments on Facebook.

Pizza lovers paid up to $75 for a 'day long celebration of the dough, cheese, tasty sauces and delicious toppings' in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood

Instead, patrons were given 'pizza...smaller than a sample size,' and that was also 'cold and tasted awful' according to comments on Facebook. The venue itself was also desolate with empty tents and hardly any vendors

'It was like the people from Fyre Festival decided to throw a pizza party,' said Connell Burke to the Gothamist remembering the train wreck lifestyle festival

'It was like the people from Fyre Festival decided to throw a pizza party,' said Connell Burke to the Gothamist, referring to the disastrous music festival that landed the promoter in jail earlier this summer in New York.

'It was my girlfriend's birthday so I got the VIP tickets, so I spent $150 total for the two tickets,' he added.

'There's three pop-up tents to my left, one where they're taking cold pizzas out of delivery boxes and cutting them.

'Those pictures don't do it justice, because they look like they're normal-sized plates but they're actually cake-sized, like what you'd use for cake at a children's birthday party. They're small, tiny little slivers of pizza.'

A small plate with even smaller piece of pizza photographed by Chip Shannon, who drove all the way from Washington DC for the festival

A user was able to capture the line leading up to the festival, shown with empty tents and no pizza in sight

The event on Facebook updated festival goers with reasoning for the absence of food but most weren't buying it.

'Hi guys, we've been hit by an incredible amount of delays in pizza delivery,' the event posted.

'Fresh, diverse and delicious pizza was supposed to be delivered every 30 minutes.

'A make-up tasting will be announced shortly. Sincere apologies. Please do not come for the rest of the night's tastings.'

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The festival was to take part in two sessions on September 9th and featured two sold out VIP sessions at 3pm and 7pm. On Eventbrite there were no mention of who would be making said pizza, a normal indicator in food or drink events

To add further insult to injury, organizers of the festival also seemed to have sold tickets for a Hamburger Festival scheduled at the same exact time and place as the other festival

But many were not pleased by the seemingly taunting response.

One user said: 'Are you f***ing serious? I was there at 5, and there was nothing. This was a fuckin scam.'

Another added: 'Freaking scam! We drove from Central NJ for what?! We got there at 4 and the rumour was it was a scam. Issue me my $200 for 4 tickets. I will make it my mission you never run another event!'

The Hamburger festival advertised 'mountains of french fries, oceans of ketchup and waterfalls of beer,' and had ticket prices ranging from $35 and $69

'How about refunding people their money who came to this crap event?' said a user.

'We came up all the way from Washington DC and all we got was this slice,' said Chip Shannon who posted a widely circulated photo of a abysmal pizza slice.

The festival was to take part in two sessions on September 9th and featured two sold out VIP sessions at 3pm and 7pm. On Eventbrite there were no mention of who would be making said pizza, a normal indicator in food or drink events.

To add further insult to injury, organizers of the festival also seemed to have sold tickets for a Hamburger Festival scheduled at the same exact time and place as the other festival.

It advertised 'mountains of french fries, oceans of ketchup and waterfalls of beer,' and had ticket prices ranging from $35 and $69.

They promoted this as a pizza festival and a hamburger festival, said a post on page Pizza Festival Scam Victims, a page dedicated to getting answers.

'People who arrived early said there were about 5 pies cut into micro slices of really bad pizza. There were no hamburgers! Clearly this is a scam and the organizers should be held accountable.'

'Those people were sitting, waiting in line to get the burgers that were not there,' Burke added.

Those able to get a hold of the event organizers were told that it was the fault of Hangry Garden, an event curation company, for causing the delay

'And when they tried to eat pizza, the people were like, 'No, no, that's for the pizza people.''

Those able to get a hold of the event organizers were told that it was the fault of Hangry Garden, an event curation company, for causing the delay.

But Jeremy Asgari, co-founder of Hangry Garden, said that he too was misled by organizer Ishmael Osekre about finding a space for the festival.

But Jeremy Asgari, co-founder of Hangry Garden, said that he too was misled by organizer Ishmael Osekre about finding a space for the festival. Hangry Garden released a statement on Facebook on Saturday night

'We'd never worked with these guys before but we saw the response they got on Facebook, which was tremendous, 30,000 interested people. We didn't think this was going to be a subpar event,' Asgari told Gothamist.

'As we got closer to the event, things just didn't add up right. They didn't pay us the fee that we were supposed to get, they weren't honoring their deal with us.'

By Friday, Asgari said they had still not been paid but that he gave the festival the 'benefit of the doubt' and brought trucks and furniture to the lot. By Saturday, they had still not been paid.

'We couldn't be part of it, of course, because we're not going to do an event for free. We started getting the feeling that this wasn't the type of event they promised,' Asgari said.

People stand around holding drinks and no food as people working the event huddle around an empty table

'We showed up and they didn't have the food vendors, they didn't have anything. I asked them where the vendors were and he said, "We had trouble finding them so we're ordering pizza to the venue." I was like are you kidding me? They were supposed to have 30 plus vendors, this is a nightmare.'

Another organizer of the event, Aputumpu, told attendees that the 'deliveries were just late mane' and mentioned a make up sampling as well.

But with another, Aputmpu had choice words for all the shaming the event was getting on Facebook and even went as far as to say that 'being nice costs nothing'.

Another organizer of the event, Aputumpu, told attendees that the 'deliveries were just late mane' and mentioned a make up sampling as well

But with another, Aputmpu had choice words for all the shaming the event was getting on Facebook and even went as far as to say that 'being nice costs nothing'

Last August, Osekre also put together an African Food Festival which was also deemed a scam by attendees. They asserted that they were only offered a small selection of the '24+' vendors who were supposed to be in attendance

All the negative feedback got the attention of Attorney General Eric Schneirderman's office, which opened an investigation into the event on Monday.

A spokesman for the office said they were 'concerned about the online complaints' they saw following the event and are asking attendees to submit complaints on the Attorney General's Office's website.

Last August, Osekre also put together an African Food Festival which was also deemed a scam by attendees. They asserted that they were only offered a small selection of the '24+' vendors who were supposed to be in attendance.

As if things could not have been worse at the time, the event was housed in the Duggal Greenhouse during blistering heat and had no air condition. Water at the event cost between three to five dollars.

Fyre Festival in the Bahamas was also branded a scam after visitors were given shocking food and horrid accommodation. An example of a meal is seen above